J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Views on the Moselle, Including One of Burg Metternich at Beilstein 1839

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Views on the Moselle, Including One of Burg Metternich at Beilstein’ 1839
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 95 Verso:
Views on the Moselle, Including One of Burg Metternich at Beilstein 1839
D28537
Turner Bequest CCXC 91 a
Pencil on flecked off-white wove paper, 100 x 163 mm
Inscribed in pencil ‘42’ (inverted) top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
These rough and swiftly wrought sketches depict fortresses in the Rhine valley including the Burg Metternich at Beilstein.

Alice Rylance-Watson
July 2013

How to cite

Alice Rylance-Watson, ‘Views on the Moselle, Including One of Burg Metternich at Beilstein 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, July 2013, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-views-on-the-moselle-including-one-of-burg-metternich-at-r1150817, accessed 19 September 2024.